Bad Bot from Savvis Communications Corporation in Cary NC?
July 18th, 2008I wrote a post in February 2008 about a badly behaving bot (Limelight Networks in Tempe and Kavam in San Jose). This morning, I’ve received a comment on that post about a potential new badly behaving bot. Here’s the information:
cary: 165.193.254.# (SAVVIS Communications Corporation)
I’m not seeing this bot yet on my web stats - but if any of you are seeing it, please leave a comment. I found some information on Wikipedia about the Savvis Communications Corporation, not very flattering stuff.
UPDATE:
After writing this article, I noticed a visit from the Savvis Communications Corporation in my own website statistics - to this very post - but unfortuately, they didn’t leave a comment. Maybe they’ll return.
Here’s the visit:
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J. Olkoski
Aldebaran Web Design, Seattle
Jill Olkoski has a BS in Engineering, a BS in Computer Science and a MA in Clinical Psychology. She delights in using her advanced technical, psychological and interpersonal skills to help small business owners develop cost-effective and successful websites.
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July 18th, 2008 at 10:28 am
thanks for this! just “commenting” so i can get triple backup of any real comments posted
July 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
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July 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Ive just added a post about to one of my blogs here,
http://www.nrac.co.uk/directory/new-bot-coming-from-savvis/
I don’t accept comments, so have pointed anyone who wants to comment about it this way.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Hi,
I’m getting consistant and irritating hits from Kavam, Savvis and Limelight on my StatCounter. Does anyone know if they’re all legitimate search engine bots SUPPOSED to allow easier access to my website ?
Thanks,
Ree
July 24th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Hi Ree,
From the best I can tell from my own experience and the experience of many others who have commented, these are not “well-behaved” bots, meaning they don’t respect instructions they should, hit the site more times than they should, etc. They’re not from Google, Yahoo, MSN or another major search engine - so I’d block them all..
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
I have had Limelight on my stats for more than a year! At first it seems that they were visiting 20-30 pages per day, now it’s multi times EVERY DAY but only one page at a time. Savvis has started the exact same routine daily….. WHY?????
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
PS…. Is there a way to block them from my site?
August 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Hi Beth,
This article has some ways to block them:
http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/kavam-limelight-network-searchme-robot-website-traffic/
I don’t really know why some companies create these badly behaving bots…there must be a reason…
September 4th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Kavaam is part of Searchme.com. I think the reason why there are so many bots visits is because of search results and bots constantly refreshing the thumbnail of a web site page that shows up on their search. I’ve seen that type of spidering from Alexa when on a vBulletin message board (meaning I would be in the Way Back machine (web.archive.org) and visit a site and that site would see massive spider traffic).
Savvis is massively spidering my sites and it is getting annoying. so annoying in fact I may try to pass on this post and others to my web hosting company because they are usually receptive of user input… This is massive and unwanted traffic. What search engine is it part of, anyway?
September 4th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Hi John,
I would recommend passing it on to your hosting company, the more folks who complain the better. I’ve tried to contact the company directly, but to no avail. I don’t know what search engine it’s part of..
September 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I started noticing weird bots about two months ago after I removed some compromised code from my site. Blocking the IP seemed to stop the attacks, but then today I noticed similar behavior from this IP address. I’m not sure who is behind it or if it’s even related, but their server sent about a half a dozen rapid hits to my site and then stopped. The weird part is that all of the hits were for posts that contained embeded music videos from YouTube. I’m not sure if other people have noticed the same behavior but it could be one of Hollywood’s goons trying to sanitize the net?